Category: DS106

Since Saturday, I have trying my best to observe all of the signs, posters, etc. around this campus to make this blog post. Here is what I have come up with! Color View this post on Instagram This is a photo for my DS106 (Digital Storytelling) class. On my...

There is a quote commonly attributed to Einstein, though he never actually said it, that goes: “everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler”. I feel like this is what Chip Kidd’s book Go is about. He makes the basis of design seem easier to understand, while...

The assignment of using “Historic Tale Constrvction Cit” to make a tapestry story seems go to very well with our theme, so it’s rounding out my starred assignments this week. However, the link provided in the assignment doesn’t work, so I googled it and used this: https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/ For the story and...

1-Arlington Historical Society 2-Ball-Sellers House 3-Pentagon Memorial 4-Potomac Overlook Regional Park 5-The Observation Deck at CEB Tower 6-Zero Gravity Corporation 7-Fashion Centre at Pentagon City (AKA Pentagon City Mall) 8-The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 9-Nicecream 10-Livin’ The Pie Life My family and I moved to Arlington not too...

So, for this assignment of making a postcard, I chose to do one of Australia, again based off of my character Maria’s trip with her friends to find the yowie and the bunyip. The assignment creator used Canva to create her postcard (I also just noticed that her name...

Front Back For this assignment, I created a business card for my character Maria Segreti. In order to do this, I used the website https://www.canva.com/ since I don’t have Photoshop like the assignment says to use and I didn’t want to buy it. To do so, I simply made an account...

So, for my character Maria Segreti, I made her a word cloud with this website. For the words I picked, here’s the word list: 2 cryptozoologist 2 folklorist 1 chupacabra 1 skinwalker 1 artifacts 1 hellhound 1 magazines 1 professor 1 adventure 1 research 1 backpack 1 folklore 1...

As I said with Week 3, as the semester goes along, classes can get easier or harder. Week 3 was easier than Week 4, and this week, Week 5, I do think was a bit easier than Week 4! Saturday On Saturday, I looked over the week’s assignments and...

Wow…that was both dark and depressing… Very well done though!   In terms of the sounds utilized in this audio, I would like to separate the verbal and the non-verbal sounds into two distinct categories. Both are important, but fulfill different roles. First of all, the verbal. Abumrad said that...

On Tuesday, 9/27, I listened to the second broadcast of Anansi Boys. As before, it was pretty easy to listen and tweet along, and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time! It was actually even easier this time around, as I got used to typing quicker...